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Growth and Expansion | Array Networks Inaugurates new facility in Dubai
With a strong presence in 10 countries, over 5000 worldwide customer deployments, over 250 customers in the Middle East, Array has become a synonym for trusted Network Function Platform Company (NFV)
The new office space supports current and future growth to make better-quality decisions and benchmark performance locally.
Array Networks Inc. is relocating its UAE branch office to a new prime location at DMCC, situated at the heart of Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT) Dubai. The new office comes with leading infrastructure and vibrant community.
The movement to one of the prime location in Dubai aims at improved performances, offering boundless opportunities for global market development plans, accommodating rising headcount — supporting record sales, revenue and steady growth.
"We are excited to invest in and build a deeper rapport with the UAE business community. Relocating to a new working space at DMCC, a dedicated global center for more than fifteen thousand businesses, not only fits our strategic needs, but gives us a fresh, new landscape for building better experiences. The new space has been chosen to foster collaboration and innovation while incorporating elements of Array's successful journey in the Middle East so far," said Srinivas Vege, Regional Director – Sales – ME & Africa at Array Networks.
Array Networks started operation in 2013 in the Middle East and quickly spread its reach all over the GCC countries. Within a span of over five years, the company has rapidly grown and is enjoying double-digit growth in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The company is growing at a positive rate of 28 percent.
The colossal growth is backed by the significant deals in BFSI, Retail Government, Telecom, Education, Healthcare, and Enterprises. Currently, Array Networks is serving close to 275 customers including SMB and large enterprises.
Array Network plans to target 300+ customers by end of this year. The regional goals will be achieved by two drivers – product growth and market expansion. Under product growth, Array will be adding third party products to their flagship AVX platform, a solid step to serve the Middle East customers. Market wise, the company has increased its outreach to the African region in early April. Now, Dubai will act as a primary hub for sales, operations, product innovation and supply for the entire Middle East and Africa region.
Shibu Paul, Vice President – International Sales at Array Networks said, "In the near future, we will look for advanced security, application acceleration & performance based on hyperconverged networking platform – AVX series. We will also be exploring opportunities to offer WAF-as-a-Service in the Middle East. The key objective is to engage with highly skilled selected partners who can evangelize customers."
With bigger and better space, Array Networks continued to serve with new and innovative strategies for its customers, adding real value to the global organizations.
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In a head scratcher of a move, a remake of the 2000 noir thriller Memento is in the works from AMBI Pictures.
The studio announced the project today in a press release. AMBI acquired the rights to Memento (and Donnie Darko, End Of Watch, Ides Of March amongst many others) when they bought the Exclusive Media Group film library.
The original film was acclaimed director Christopher Nolan's sophomore effort at helming a movie and came from a short story written by his brother Jonathan Nolan. Memento told the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), an anterograde amnesiac on the hunt for his wife's killer. Because he can't make new memories he relies on tattoos, polaroids and notes he leaves himself to continue the hunt. Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano also starred.
Memento is a great film that felt so original when it first came out. With its dual timelines (one going in chronological order and the other being told in reverse order), incredible twists and tight storytelling it remains a favorite amongst cinephiles to this day. I myself usually like to view the film once a year.
Memento is a masterpiece that leaves audiences guessing not just throughout the film, but long after as well, which is a testament to its daring approach. We intend to stay true to Christopher Nolan's vision and deliver a memorable movie that is every bit as edgy, iconic and award-worthy as the original. It's a big responsibility to deliver something that lives up to the mastery of the original, but we are extremely excited and motivated to bring this puzzle back to life and back into the minds of moviegoers.
I don't know if you can re-create the feel of Memento. Sure it's been long enough that a new generation would love to see something like this in theaters, but I still think it's a tough sell for the crowd that loves the original film.
With the expansive library at AMBI's fingertips I expect to hear about a lot more remakes and the like in the near future. They didn't just buy that film library to do nothing after all.
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'Constant' Orgies, 'Beautiful, Tall' European Models: Accuser Describes Epstein's Pedophile Island in Unsealed Docs
August 1, 2020 July 31, 2020 Michigan Star Staff
by Mary Margaret Olohan
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his cohort and ex-over Ghislaine Maxwell hosted "constant" orgies on Epstein's private Caribbean island, accuser Virginia Giuffre says in newly released court documents.
The documents are transcripts of depositions from Giuffre's previously settled 2016 civil lawsuit against Maxwell, whom Giuffre says sexually abused her along with Epstein, attorney Alan Dershowitz, and the U.K.'s Prince Andrew. The documents were made public for the first time Thursday evening, according to the New York Post.
The accuser testified that Maxwell engaged in "continuous" sex with both girls and women in front of Giuffre, incidents which took place "100 percent" of the time in the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to Giuffre.
Some of these girls were as young as 15, Giuffre said, according to the New York Post. Sex with a person who has not reached the age of consent is classified as statutory rape, regardless of whether the person consented.
"The island was a place where orgies were a constant thing that took place. And again, it's impossible to know how many," Giuffre said.
"There's just a blur of so many girls," the accuser told Maxwell's attorneys when they asked her to name those with whom she saw Maxwell have sex, the Post reported.
"There were blondes, there were brunettes, there were redheads," she said. "They were all beautiful girls. I would say the ages ranged between 15 and 21."
Giuffre described seeing Maxwell having sex with women all over Little St. James, such as in Epstein's cabana, in small huts, near the beach, and by a pool, according to the Post. She also detailed an incident wherein a group of foreign models were allegedly flown in and orgies were held by the pool.
"One occasion stands out," she said. "Models were — I think they were models — were flown in. There were orgies held outside by the pool."
The models were "beautiful, tall, some were blonde, some were sandy brown," she said, and they spoke in a foreign language she believes was Russian or Czechoslovakian, the Post reported.
"Ghislaine, myself, Jeffrey, another girl in this blue, outdoor — I don't know what you want to call it. Cabana, that … just a bed could fit in," she added.
The accuser also said that she traveled to Europe with Maxwell and Epstein on a number of occasions, the Post reported. During these trips, she says she was trafficked to high profile men such as Prince Andrew and Dershowitz.
She testified that Maxwell and Epstein would tell her that she should not cross them, reminding her of their powerful connections: "Jeffrey did a lot more of that than she did," she said. "But she definitely made it aware that we shouldn't cross boundaries with them."
Mary Margaret Olohan is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo "Jeffrey Epstein Private Island" by Navin75. CC BY-SA 2.0.
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WE WOULD SIT TOGETHER/DEPARTED DIALOGUES by Ida Sophia
WE WOULD SIT TOGETHER/DEPARTED DIALOGUES 03/05-26/05/2019 WE WOULD SIT TOGETHER The sculptures stand as a still-life Memento Mori. Taking the form of a dining room scene, Ida Sophia's work connects us with a familiar memory of sitting at a table with someone, about to share a meal. At closer inspection, there is no table, nor chairs to sit upon; only a silhouette of their past, moulded from draped fabric. In veiling the object, it ceases to be a distraction for the soul who needs to sever its earthly ties and make the journey to the other realm. This ritualistic act is to remember the departed. We – the ones left behind – carry the burden of memory so that the departed may relinquish themselves from the material world. We aid their transition. Memory explicitly belongs to the living. It is through this ritual that we are reminded of our own mortality; and that we must carry on living. Objects used and once belonging to individuals retain an energy in death. This process of concealment, therefore, is both ritualistic mourning and superstitious act. We honour the dead and simultaneously ward them off. Beneath the sculptures, Ida uses negative space as a visual representation of the departed; a palpable effigy of their absence from life. Within the context of our own memory, these sculptures are but representations of moments gone by. Considering space in this way reflects the Japanese concept of 'MA'; "more than simply a void: it is a rich space that possesses incalculable energy" [Akiko Fukai]. The "MA" of an object is its essence, such as the space between two violin strings. Drawing focus to this space, allows the viewer to see the shape of a familiar memory and inadvertently fill it from their own experience. DEPARTED DIALOGUES Continuing on from 'We Would Sit Together' within Æther Art Space, Ida Sophia considers the next phase of the departed's journey. Does dialogue exist 'up there', in nirvana, the next world, the hereafter? What (perhaps) might it sound like? Can we be heard? The first law of thermodynamics states that: the total energy of an isolated system [i.e: the body] is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another, but can be neither created nor destroyed [in death]. Applied in this context, a departed souls' energy remains, causing a line of connection/ communication to remain open. Upon entering, the viewer approaches couplings of hovering faces. Parent to child. Lover to Lover. Sibling to Sibling. Friend to Friend. Enemy to Foe. Artist to Artist. Beneath delicate folds of fabric, the ambiguous human faces are positioned in dialogue with one another amidst a cacophony of noise. The imagined soundscape represents the departed soul's dialogue in the next world; their energetic unity which exists beyond the physicality of plain language. In the centre of the room, a set of eight masks are turned to look outward. The sphere of faces invites the viewer to approach and engage in dialogue. As features come into familiar focus, the moment to communicate with your departed arrives. In speaking to those we have lost, we create a space to accept their absence while forming a connection back to them. The words spoken to these representations are absorbed, seemingly distorted, and are then translated back into the soundscape dialogue. Speak your grievances and final thoughts, your yearnings and misgivings, your promises pledged, kept and broken. Speak with them, they are listening. About the artist, personal motive and revealed processes: Ida Sophia (Born 1989, Mount Gambier) is an Australian contemporary Artist. She lives and works in Adelaide, Australia. Through her own personal, yet universal experience with death, Ida Sophia's works focus on grieving processes. Relating to Memento Mori [Remember that you shall die], the works are concerned with the ritualistic separation from one's departed and the journey to incorporate loss into life. "I am looking for qualities in my work that facilitate our need for ritual, contemplation and completion. I want to slow down the dilution of ceremony and reinvigorate its necessity in our present state." Her themes oscillate between living and longing and how they directly reflect our experiences throughout mourning. Raised in a Victorian era home furnished with Japanese antiques, Ida Sophia cultivated a relationship with Eastern and Western ways of life, involving themes of death and beauty, from youth. This cultural exposure directly informs the foundational concepts of her work. In 2019, Ida Sophia graduated with a Diploma of Photography from The Centre for Creative Photography and held her first international solo exhibition at Æther Art Space in Sofia, Bulgaria. She attended the 'Cleaning The House' workshop with Marina Abramovic Institute in Evia, Greece and exhibited video work at Head On Screens for the Head On Photo Festival in Sydney, Australia. Ida Sophia will also participate in the graduate group show 'Harvest' at Studio Bowden, Adelaide. Her first international group show was held in May of 2018 at World Of CO in Sofia, Bulgaria. This show displayed her Series 'Separation-Transition-Incorporation', created in the four weeks prior as an artist in residence at World Of CO. In 2018 Ida Sophia was a finalist in the Byron Arts Magazine Prize held at ThomGallery, Byron Bay Sydney and contributed to Issue 1: Becoming The Other, Launched in Stuttgart in Nov. 2018 as part of Soft Power Palace at Kunstgebäude Stuttgart. 2017 saw her shortlisted for the Prospect Portrait Prize Adelaide and Click17 at the Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne. Ida Sophia is a multimedia artist working in Adelaide. The mediums used in her practise include photography, video, performance, sound and sculpture. more of the artist: https://sophiearmstrong.photography/


My PTA group is doing a challenge for an upcoming exhibit. I'm not always enthused to do challenges but this one I'm loving. It's based on the idea of creating a piece inspired by a 2-dimensional artist - one we admire, one who's work has inspired us. It's been great fun seeing the different works in progress and the various artists represented. I chose an American artist, not one I was familiar with but whose work I've seen time and time again and have been drawn to. He uses lots of florals as his subject matter.
Interesting leaves and lots of them.
Lots of swirls and "Curly-Qs".
In looking at my own work, I realized I've been doing a similar style all this time, especially the "Curly-Qs" - on everything from quilts to clothing.
So he has become my artist of choice.
Oh, and hummingbirds appear a lot in his work which I intend to put in mine also.
I would love to open with "It was a dark and stormy night" but really it was just a welcomed rain storm, a very heavy, long rainstorm followed by lots of fog and then the sunset! Wow, talk about nature showing her colors.
But then, just when I thought it couldn't get any better, I looked outside and saw this.
I've seen lots of rainbows but this was by far the best ever!
And it stayed around for quite a while - around 30 minutes.
Everything looked so green and happy.
And as if this wonderful rainbow wasn't enough, along came a double rainbow.
My mother in law Hilda loved rainbows, always felt it was a sign that her hubby John was looking down on her saying hi.
A double...well must be both of them are looking down on us. After such a crazy 2 weeks, this was a welcomed, peaceful, beautiful and unexpected moment, one which makes you stop and be thankful for the beauty in this world.
There are still 2 days left to visit the wonderful Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands held at the Asheville Civic Center in downtown Asheville. The concourse level is around the perimeter of the civic center and houses wonderful booths filled with pottery, fiber, gorgeous jewelry, hand made brooms, dolls and much more.
Come visit me at booth # 21 on the main level, would love to see you!
The arena - downstairs fills the entire center of the civic center with lots of booths, live music and interesting demos. It's a wonderful, fun-filled and also educational day.
There are demonstrations going on outside the building as you enter.
It's been great fun meeting lots of nice people and being in downtown Asheville every day amidst all the hustle bustle, so I hope to see you at the fair.
AQS Knoxville Show - We Did It!!!!
I know I've talked about my PTA group many times - a great group of very talented, sharing and fun-loving ladies. Every year we enter the challenge through the American Quilter's Society show in Knoxville and every year we go and every year we don't win.....EXCEPT.... for this year. Our PTA group took a third place with their challenge pieces depicting Sunrise/sunset. For this challenge AQS sets size specifications but the rest of the challenge is up to the individual group. Our group decided on the theme of Sunrise/sunset and the use of black fabric somewhere in the piece. Each group has their own row which gives the viewer a good sense of what the challenge is about. Our row looked great! - so on with the show. Kate Weston designed this wonderful piece - "Sunset Cruise".
Dort Lee created "Morning Milking" with some beautiful shadowing to capture the feel of early morning.
Janice Maddox created this colorful quilt - "Here Comes the Sun".
Lynne Harrill did "Jocassee Sunrise", what a wonderful effect of the sun shimmering on the water.
Mary Berry did this wonderful piece - "Conundrum - Sunrise/sunset".
Mary Stori created "Pine Ridge at Dawn". I love the patchwork backdrop.
Barbara Swinea created this lovely piece - "Sunrise Silhouette".
Linda Cantrell created this very colorful piece -"Under African Skies". Linda taught in Africa awhile back and perhaps was influenced by their beautiful skies.
Congratulations PTA -ers - you did a fantastic job!
We love the Grovepark Inn in Asheville, NC and often go there for special occasions. Last night we went there for dinner and they were celebrating their 98th anniversary.
And as luck would have it, we were there for our anniversary which is today. I can't believe we took the walk down the aisle 40 years ago. Sometimes it seems like an eternity and sometimes it seems like yesterday.
Time has flown since then til now.
And the journey has been fun and wonderful!
To continue our wonderful day at Biltmore Industries, we were treated to another tour of the building which houses the history of Biltmore Industries. Jerry's wife, as knowledgeable as Jerry gave us a tour, a quick history lesson and an interesting video to watch.
This room held many of the "homespun" textiles created during that time period. They were given that name because they were spun at home which I still hear today.
This beautiful jacket was made from hand woven fabric.
Being a clothing person who loves wool, I was totally taken with these wonderful samples of cloth made during the different time periods - this one the 1940s.
It was then onto the studios....Twice a year, the artists at Grovewood, open their studios to the public. It's wonderful to see their space and the amazing tools they work with.
The Portfolio Metal Works studio houses beautiful jewelry. All the artists were in their studio - such great fun to meet them.
Daniel Essig makes wooden and sculptural books - that description doesn't do it justice. I first met Daniel when I lived in Atlanta. My friends and I loved to attend the American Craft Council Show every year. Daniel was always there and quickly became our very "favorite" artist and always the first person we went to see.
Little did I realize that someday I would be living in the same town as Daniel and could see his work all the time! His work is displayed like you see below - each one on a pedestal. You could pour over each one for hours noticing the wonderful detail that goes into each piece.
And these beautiful wall sculptures.
If you're ever in Asheville, take a day to visit this part of town and the Grovewood Gallery which features the work of so many wonderful artists in this area.
This past weekend my fiber group - LINT (Ladies in New Textiles) had the wonderful opportunity to visit the "behind the scenes" of the once very lucrative and well known Biltmore Industries. It is no longer in existence and being able to see the factory rooms and equipment not is use anymore was both eery and exciting. Under the direction and great expertise of Jerry, we were given a guided tour and lots of great stories and information - probably more than our brains could absorb.
We first entered some of these amazing buildings through a back, un-used entrance.
What started out as a cottage industry soon grew to enormous proportions. In the early 1900s, two ladies, Ms. Vance and Ms. Yale - graduates of a missionary college in NY, found their way to Asheville. They decided the youth needed something to keep themselves busy after school. They started a program to teach these young men woodcarving and the women - spinning for the purposes of weaving cloth.
And as many times as I've walked through this door, I've never looked above - it's the Eleanor Vance Building and also known as the popular Grovewood Gallery. The little woodcarvings are some of the things the young men carved years ago.
The unusual roofs were amazing to see and the pictures will probably find their way to a quilt someday.
The first building we entered was also a storage for the building outdoor sculptures featured on the grounds. This building was where yarns were dyed and washed to be used for spinning and weaving.
Susan stood next to one of the vats to give perspective to the size.
And such great antique washing machines, made to handle very large quantities.
And the little white room at the top for the "head guy" to oversee production.
I love all the old walls and peeling paint.
A room kept locked which housed precious formulas, dyes and other auxiliaries used in the process.
I was fascinated by this very old antique sewing machine.
This room was very depressing but it actually was just used to house the rovings before processing them into yarn.
And the big weaving room with plenty of windows and natural daylight, a plus for keeping workers happy.
Lots and lots of these bags all holding the spindles used in the weaving process.
We were all given one as a little gift to remind us of this wonderful and informative day.


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Q: How to prove that $x^y - y^x = x + y$ has only one solution in positive integers? Prompted by this question, I tried to show that $(2,5)$ is the only solution in positive integers of $x^y - y^x = x+y$ (which would show, a fortiori, that it's the only solution in primes). It's convenient to rewrite the equation as $f(x,y) = x^y - y^x - x - y = 0$.
With the aid of some trial calculations, I reasoned informally as follows:
If $x=1$ then $f(x,y) = -2y=0$, implying $y=0$.
If $x=2$ and $y \leq 5$, then a case-by-case check shows that only $(2,5)$ is a solution.
If $(x,y) = (2,6)$ then $f(x,y) = 20$, and as $y$ increases above $6$, $f(x,y)$ increases.
If $x \geq 3$ and $y \leq x$ then $f(x,y) < 0$.
If $x \geq 3$ and $y=x+1$, then $f(x,y)>0$, and as $y$ increases above $x+1$, $f(x,y)$ increases.
How can the above be made into a rigorous proof?  I've included calculus as a tag since it could be useful in showing under what conditions $f(x,y)$ is an increasing function of $y$ (viewing it as a real variable).

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If $(x,y) = (2,6)$ then $f(x,y) = 20$, and as $y$ increases above $6$, $f(x,y)$ increases.

To prove this rigorously, let us prove by induction that $$2^{X-1}\gt X+1\tag1$$ for $X\ge 6$.
The base case : $2^{6-1}=32\gt 7=6+1$.
Supposing that $(1)$ holds for some $X$ gives
$$2^{(X+1)-1}=2\cdot 2^{X-1}\gt 2(X+1)=X+X+2\gt (X+1)+1\quad\blacksquare$$
Using $(1)$, we get, for $y\ge 6$,
$$f(2,y+1)-f(2,y)=2(2^{y-1}-y-1)\gt 0$$

If $x \geq 3$ and $y \leq x$ then $f(x,y) < 0$.

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*$f(x,1)=-2\lt 0$.

*To prove that $f(x,2)\lt 0$ for $x\ge 3$, let us prove by induction that $$2^X\gt X^2-X-2\tag2$$ for $X\ge 4$. The base case : $2^4=16\gt 10=4^2-4-2$. Supposing that $(2)$ holds for some $X$ gives $$\begin{align}2^{X+1}&=2\cdot 2^X\\&\gt 2(X^2-X-2)\\&=(X+1)^2-(X+1)-2+X(X-3)-2\\&\ge (X+1)^2-(X+1)-2+4(4-3)-2\\&\gt (X+1)^2-(X+1)-2\quad\blacksquare\end{align}$$ Also, it is easy to see that $(2)$ holds for $X=3$. Using this, we get, for $x\ge 3$, $$f(x,2)=(x^2-x-2)-2^x\lt 0$$

*To prove that $f(x,y)\lt 0$ for $3\le y\le x$, we use the fact that $y=\frac{\ln x}{x}$ is decreasing for $x\gt e$. We see that $\frac{\ln y}{y}\ge \frac{\ln x}{x}$ for $3\le y\le x$ from which $x^y-y^x\le 0$ follows. It follows from this that we have, for $3\le y\le x$, $$f(x,y)=x^y-y^x-x-y\le 0-x-y\lt 0$$

If $x \geq 3$ and $y=x+1$, then $f(x,y)>0$, and as $y$ increases above $x+1$, $f(x,y)$ increases.

This answer proves that $f(x,y)\gt 0$ for $x\ge 3$ and $y\ge x+2$.
Let $y=x+a$ where $a\ge 2$ is an integer. Then,
$$\frac{f(x,x+a)}{x^x}=x^{a}-\left(1+\frac ax\right)^x-\frac{2}{x^{x-1}}-\frac{a}{x^x}\gt x^a-e^a-\frac 29-\frac{a}{x^x}:=g(x)$$
Since $g'(x)=ax^{a-1}+\frac{a+a\ln x}{x^x}\gt 0$, $g(x)$ is increasing with $g(3)=3^a-e^a-\frac 29-\frac{a}{27}:=h(a)$.
We have $h'(a)=3^a\ln 3-e^a-\frac{1}{27}$ and $h''(a)=3^a(\ln 3)^2-e^a\gt 0$ with $h'(2)=9\ln 3-e^2-\frac{1}{27}\gt 0$ and $h(2)=9-e^2-\frac 29-\frac{2}{27}\gt 0$.
So, $h(a)\gt 0$ for $a\ge 2$. It follows from this that $g(x)\gt 0$ for $x\ge 3$.
Therefore, $f(x,x+a)\gt 0$ follows.

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For the window and door maker, 3D printing for tooling and machine components is "not just another tool, but a whole other toolkit." However, winning widespread acceptance and understanding was the most important challenge.
Trak Machine Tools will now sell and support Plural Additive Manufacturing's 3ntr systems through its direct sales representatives, its resellers and its showrooms.
The tooling that had long been accepted was contributing to unnecessary manual labor for this PVD coater. Now, the company has improved its process with custom tools that are 3D-printed in production quantities.
Rapid 2018: The system's low-humidity, UV-free space is designed to increase material performance and shelf life.
Plural Additive Manufacturing will address what it means to incorporate AM into a business, and the thinking and steps required to take advantage of this technology.
Rapid 2017: The two printer models provide high repeatability and cost-effective parts.


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Kuchyňka (242 m n. m.) je vrch v okrese Praha-východ Středočeského kraje. Leží asi 0,5 km vjv. od obce Brázdim na jejím katastrálních území. Značná část vrchu včetně vrcholu je chráněna jako Přírodní památka Kuchyňka.

Geomorfologické zařazení
Geomorfologicky vrch náleží do celku Středolabská tabule, podcelku Českobrodská tabule, okrsku Kojetická pahorkatina a podokrsku Přezletická tabule.

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Saint Augustine of Canterbury, also called Austin, (born Rome?—died May 26, 604/605, Canterbury, Kent, England; feast day in England and Wales May 26, elsewhere May 28), first archbishop of Canterbury and the apostle to England, who founded the Christian church in southern England.
Probably of aristocratic birth, Augustine was prior of the Benedictine monastery of St. Andrew, Rome, when Pope St. Gregory I the Great chose him to lead an unprecedented mission of about 40 monks to England, which was then largely pagan. They left in June 596, but, arriving in southern Gaul, they were warned of the perils awaiting them and sent Augustine back to Rome. There Gregory encouraged him with letters of commendation (dated July 23, 596), and he set out once more.
The entourage landed in the spring of 597 on the Isle of Thanet, off the southeast coast of England, and was well received by King Aethelberht (Ethelbert) I of Kent, who gave the missionaries a dwelling place in Canterbury and the old St. Martin's Church, where he allowed them to preach. With Aethelberht's support, their work led to many conversions, including that of the King. In the following autumn Augustine was consecrated bishop of the English by St. Virgilius at Arles.
Thousands of Aethelberht's subjects were reportedly baptized by Augustine on Christmas Day 597, and he subsequently dispatched two of his monks to Rome with a report of this extraordinary event and a request for further help and advice. They returned in 601 with the pallium (i.e., symbol of metropolitan jurisdiction) from Gregory for Augustine and with more missionaries, including the celebrated saints Mellitus, Justus, and Paulinus. Gregory, with whom Augustine corresponded throughout his apostolate, directed him to purify pagan temples for Christian worship and to consecrate 12 suffragan bishops; thus, he was given authority over the bishops in Britain, and the evangelization of the Kingdom of Kent began.
Augustine founded Christ Church, Canterbury, as his cathedral and the monastery of SS. Peter and Paul (known after his death as St. Augustine's, where the early archbishops were buried), which came to rank as the second Benedictine house in all Europe. Canterbury thus was established as the primatial see of England, a position maintained thereafter. In 604 he established the episcopal sees of London (for the East Saxons), consecrating Mellitus as its bishop, and of Rochester, consecrating Justus as its bishop.
At a conference with British bishops, Augustine tried in vain to unify the British (Celtic) churches of North Wales and the churches he was founding. A second conference, his last recorded act, proved equally fruitless. Augustine was buried at SS. Peter and Paul.


Paul Goad of Frenchgate told us about his Great-Uncle, Henry Jesse Richardson.
Henry was born in March 1889 in Hailsham, East Sussex, where he lived prior to enlistment. In the 1911 census he gave his profession as Mat Making, his Father William, being a Mat Weaver at that time. Hailsham had a vibrant string, twine and rope based industry at the time from which they gained their employment.
Henry enlisted in 1916 at Purfleet and joined the 13th London Regiment (Princess Louise's Kensington Battalion). Henry's Service medal and Award Rolls show that he served on the Western Front from September 1st 1916 until his death on August 16th 1917 at the Battle of Langemarck. During his time in theatre Henry's Battalion were in action at the Battles of Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette and Morval in 1916 and the Second Battle of Arras in 1917.
Henry's burial spot is at Ypres, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders Belgium. He is also remembered on the roll of Hailsham War Memorial.
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How The North Face Put A New Face On Its Marketing
nikholas December 6, 2022 5 min read
Outdoor clothing and gear manufacturer The North Face has reshaped its agency structure and its approach to marketing.
The process started with a decision to bring creative strategy and production in house. This year, The North Face consolidated further, but without ditching the agency role entirely.
The North Face put out an RFP to find a creative services agency that could take the content being developed by the brand's internal creative team and turn it into ad formats that work across the internet, said Bethany Evans, the brand's VP of media and channel marketing.
But consolidation is still the goal. And, recently, when The North Face ran an RFP for a programmatic buying agency, it went with WITHIN, which also happens to be the performance agency that won its creative services RFP.
The agency restructuring reflects a broader change for The North Face's marketing, Evans said.
Historically, brands treated "brand marketing" and "performance marketing" as two distinct categories. The North Face used to have separate teams for each. But now, The North Face looks at the entire customer funnel through one lens.
AdExchanger caught up with Evans to discuss The North Face's in-housing and analytics shakeups and what channels she thinks are in an early growth streak. (Hint: TikTok and DOOH.)
AdExchanger: Why did you consolidate creative and media-buying agencies?
BETHANY EVANS: We used to have a creative AOR, but we made the decision to pivot most of our creative work, so now our internal creative director and his team do our concepting and big productions.
There are so many nuances, though, when it comes to paid media and all of the different formats, which seemingly change daily. So, we realized we needed a partner specifically to take all of the internal work we've done and make the myriad of paid formats [we need] across the ecosystem.
We ran an RFP in the spring for a creative partner and started with WITHIN on creative. We added them as our media agency as of October.
What does this help you do?
From a practical perspective, being able to brief creative and media at once and have them come back with a holistic pitch deck, is a joy.
It used to be, even five or so years ago, that your media and creative teams might work together, [but] it wasn't like you were iterating while the campaign was live. You'd regroup after to see how it performed. Now we're optimizing in-flight.
There's also this old idea in marketing that's been treated as common knowledge, that brand and performance advertising are two different things. "Brand" is for building emotional connections and "performance" drives conversions, and never the two shall meet.
What I like about WITHIN is they essentially collapse that funnel to: "What are your objectives?"
We used to have one agency doing upper funnel and another agency for lower-funnel ads. It's inefficient because you can't think about frequency, suppressions and audience retargeting with two silos.
Has your attribution and analytics changed?
You will not be surprised to hear that, yes, it is a mess everywhere, and we're trying continually to get away from last-click attribution. We know it's skewed to certain channels, like search.
We do an annual marketing ROI study, which is directionally helpful, and throughout the year we do incrementality testing with match market tests. But one of the things that stood out to me about WITHIN'S approach is that they're focused on marginal budget allocation. That means looking at every dollar to ask, "where should that next dollar be spent?"
We're also looking at how to drive sustainable performance metrics, like lifetime value cohorts versus focusing on short-term revenue based on last-click. That's going to sustain a more profitable, long-term relationship with the customer than prioritizing the immediate dollar.
What does that look like in practice?
To get specific, thinking about acquisition, typically a brand might have a target CPA of $X and say: "We want to reach people within that number and not afterwards."
But, if we're looking at a marginal CPA, we might actually be willing to pay a little bit more to acquire a certain type of person, because we believe that they're going to have a higher lifetime value based on these models that we've built.
It gets more nuanced and less black and white in a way that's actually the right thing to do for both the business and the customer. Someone's first purchase may indicate very different types of lifetime value.
Which is to say, someone buying discounted off-season clothes indicates a different shopper type than someone whose first purchase is a full-priced coat with a premium because it's made out of recycled materials?
Yes, and both those customers are important and valued, so being less strict with our acquisition thresholds to account for those types of nuance is one specific example of how that could come to life.
Are there any channels you're excited about that could be bigger parts of the budget next year?
You'll laugh because, of course, I'm going to say TikTok. I think that's what most people would say right now – but it's for a reason. That's where the eyeballs are.
What's interesting about TikTok is that it's arguably an entertainment channel, not social media. Sure, you have social elements like comments, but people are spending more time watching video after video.
I'm even starting to think about them as, in some ways, more of a CTV channel than a social network. I'm very bullish on TikTok.
Any channels other than TikTok?
Travel advertising networks and digital out-of-home are another. We're still trying to figure out what's the right way for it to work.
For example, here in Denver, it's our new home city and many people are traveling here, of course, for the ski season. We worked with WITHIN to do some DOOH at the Denver Airport.
It makes sense as a way to reach travelers and for us as a business to say: "Welcome, this is our new home."
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Freedom Denied: Mother whose childhood was stolen by abuse raises her children from prison after 20 years without parole
Kathryn Casteel
Content warning: This story contains descriptions of child abuse and violence.
Chaundra Johnson says she learned how to be an adult in prison. Not only because she's spent nearly half her life behind bars for the murder of a man she did not kill, but also because of the abuse and trauma she experienced as a girl growing up in Macon County, Alabama.
"Our childhood was nothing," Johnson told the Southern Poverty Law Center in an interview about her early life with two brothers. "I don't remember no fun times, because I hadn't had none. We had to grow up fast, try to survive and help our mama."
Johnson's father left her mother when she was 4 and he wasn't in the picture much. She suffered abuse at the hands of other men who were close to her family. An aunt's boyfriend sexually abused her when she was 8. The abuse continued until she was 12, when he died in a car accident.
Her mother dated a physically abusive man who often hit her mom. He once fired a rifle at Johnson and her brothers. That led Johnson to a deep fear of guns, she said.
"[My mother] just went through pure hell," Johnson said. "But she still tried."
That was just a portion of the trauma she experienced as a child.
Now at 43, Johnson dreams of a different life for her own children, whom she has helped raise for the last 20 years while incarcerated at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in rural Wetumpka, Alabama.
She's serving a life sentence for the murder of Charles Clarence Whatley, or Lance, as she knew him. Lance was a friend who often did drugs with her when she was in her early 20s.
She says she didn't hurt Lance, but she was there when Craig Newton, an acquaintance who'd promised to sell drugs to the two of them, killed him. She was also charged with murder, and without good legal advice, she pleaded guilty.
"Lance was a wonderful man," she said. "He was a man that anybody would've loved to have known."
In July 2020, Johnson was up for parole. Her husband of over 20 years, Robert Johnson, her daughters, Chantae and Charnae Alexander, and her son, Robert Johnson Jr., all wrote letters in support of her release, along with several others. Her family was ready for her to be a wife and mother – and now even a grandmother – outside the prison walls.
But her parole was denied.
Only a few months later, in December 2020, her daughter Chantae passed away suddenly in a car accident. She was only 25 and left behind two young children of her own.
"Chantae was making me proud," Johnson said. "She had one more semester in college and was going to get her degree in culinary arts. She was supposed to be the one to break the curse."
'The worst house we could've gone to'
Johnson was introduced to crack cocaine at 16 through a neighbor who had stopped by with a supposed job offer when her family moved into a new area. But the man's intentions, she said, were not good.
"He ruined my life," she said. "I was never in trouble, I was an A student in school, I just had my first baby. I didn't know nothing about this stuff. So, once I got in tune with getting high, it's like I couldn't shake it off me."
Johnson developed a substance use disorder in her teens. To support her habit, she started shoplifting and committing acts of petty theft.
"I tried to explain to [my family] that feeling… it's something that you just can't turn on and turn off if you are not strong enough," she said. "That's why I sympathize with people that are on drugs, because I know how hard it is to come off of it if you don't have the right support."
After 1997, she spent roughly two years in prison for two theft charges and a third-degree burglary charge related to her reliance on drugs. When she was released in 1999, she married her husband, Robert Johnson.
But she still could not escape her dependency. That's how she ended up meeting Lance Whatley.
The night of Whatley's death in May 2001, he and Johnson were looking to buy more drugs in Tuskegee, Alabama, where she was living at the time.
"He asked me if I knew anybody and I told him no, but I said I know some folks that might have something," she said. "We ended up going to a few people's houses that I knew had stuff. They didn't have nothing, so the last one we ended up going to was the worst house we could've gone to."
Whatley and Johnson stopped at the home of a friend she knew from high school. Craig Newton also lived there. Newton had some drugs he could sell, she said, but he asked if Whatley could give him a ride to Highway 29 to get more.
"I said tell him no, I said don't do it," Johnson said. "We don't need to take him. I said, 'Something ain't sitting right with me with this boy, I'm telling you.' Well, he said, 'It's going to be okay.'"
Whatley, Newton and Johnson stopped at Whatley's home, where he wanted to smoke. However, during the course of the night, Newton pulled out a gun to rob Whatley. He told Johnson to tie up Whatley with a hair dryer cord, or he would shoot her, too. After a struggle, Newton shot Whatley and set his place on fire.
"I couldn't believe it was actually happening," Johnson said. "And if I knew like I knew now, I would have ran. I would've ran and got help. But I was too scared. I got a gun pointed at me. I'm doing what he tells me to do."
Newton forced Johnson to drive Whatley's car away from the residence. She said she believes that was his motive for keeping her alive, to have her fingerprints on the scene to implicate her in the crime. Eventually, she was dropped off at home, traumatized.
"I turned myself in two days later because my husband convinced me to do it," Johnson said. "He told me to turn myself in because that would be the right thing to do, and because I ain't got nothin' to hide."
According to a letter to the parole board on her behalf from David Warren, a former Macon County sheriff, Johnson supplied "vital information that led to the conviction of the actual killer," Craig Newton. Warren wrote in favor of Johnson's release.
In 2001, at the time of her sentencing, her prior convictions made her a habitual offender in the state of Alabama. That, along with a lack of adequate legal representation, meant that the cards were stacked against her.
"I didn't have the money to get a good lawyer," her husband said. "I talked with one lawyer that I couldn't hire, and he told me if you love this woman, what you need to do is y'all need to plead guilty to keep [the case] from going to court and avoid the death sentence."
Today, Newton is on Alabama's death row for the murder of Whatley. Because Johnson pleaded guilty and testified against him, she avoided a similar fate. But she still spent the last two decades in prison.
Despite her hardships, Johnson has since overcome her dependence on drugs. She's gone through a substance abuse program, received her GED diploma, and taken classes on grief counseling.
What's more, she has earned certificates in parenting, anger management and creative writing from Auburn University. She took cosmetology classes at J.F. Ingram Technical College and had a couple of potential jobs lined up at salons if she were released.
Still, her husband said he wants to help her open a business in order to avoid the collateral consequences that formerly incarcerated people tend to face while trying to find work.
Johnson is not up for a parole hearing again until 2025.
Over the past 20 years, Johnson's husband has visited her as often as he could. He also frequently brought her children to see her so they would know their mother.
"As her husband I never missed a visit," he said. "By marrying her, I was able to take the children and stuff happened differently, the support was different than if I had not been married to her. I thank the Lord for that."
When Johnson was denied parole last year, it hurt her husband and children.
"They felt that she had done her time and that the system wasn't fair," her husband said. "They could see the disparity in the criminal justice system from TV. Not only my children, but there are other children that are under the same circumstance, many children across Alabama. I pray for them all the time, not just mine."
'I grew up seeing my mom behind bars'
Chantae Alexander, Chaundra's middle daughter who passed away late last year, wrote a letter of support for her mother before her hearing last July.
In it, she wrote, "Since I was a little girl I grew up seeing my mom behind bars. Never really getting that time with her how I wanted to. Everything I do is to make sure I break the curse of my mother's decisions. … Every time I go to visit my mom her spirits are so wonderful because she knows it won't be long before she comes home to her family. I know she wants to be able to watch her grandkids grow up because she couldn't watch us grow up into the adults we are today."
Chantae also wrote about how proud she was of her mom's accomplishments while incarcerated.
"She makes me feel like it's never too late to go after your dreams no matter what you went through in life," she wrote.
"The last thing I remember her telling me was, 'Mama, you're stronger than I ever would have been. Mama, I'm proud of you. Mama, I'm not mad at you and I forgive you, Mama,'" Johnson said. "If my children can forgive me for leaving them when they were babies, anybody should be able to forgive me."
Johnson said she wishes she could have done things differently the night of Whatley's death, but she doesn't regret telling the truth. Her story hasn't changed in over 20 years. She says she still believes that one day the truth will set her free.
"I lost so much being in prison, so I know how it feels to lose things. I know how it feels to lose someone. I know how it feels to be lonely. I know how it feels to hurt. I hurt every day," she said. "But I didn't take his life and I don't feel like they should take mine, but they have. I've lost my brother since I've been incarcerated. I've lost my mom and now I've lost one of my children. What's left? What else do they want from me? I don't have nothin' left."


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Chennai Super Kings' captain MS Dhoni plays a shot against Royal Challengers Bangalore during an IPL cricket match in Pune.
Chennai Super Kings' Harbhajan Singh celebrates the dismissal of Royal Challengers Bangalore's AB de Villiers during an IPL cricket match in Pune.
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Trinidad María Miró Mira (Alcoi, 30 de setembre de 1960) és una política i musicòloga valenciana. Fou Consellera de Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana en la VII Legislatura (2007-2011).

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Ha estat professora de ballet clàssic i dansa espanyola, així com directora del Conservatori Municipal d'Alcoi. Militant del Partit Popular, el 1999 fou escollida regidora de l'ajuntament d'Alcoi, ocupant els càrrecs de regidora de cultura (1999-2003) i tercera tinent d'alcalde (2003-2007). Ha estat escollida diputada a les eleccions a les Corts Valencianes de 2007 per la província de València i a les eleccions de 2011 per la d'Alacant.

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Q: SortedSet mapped on Hibernate using @Orderby by Inherited field I have the entity Alpha, and inside them:
@OneToMany(mappedBy = "alpha")
@OrderBy("attributeName ASC")
@Sort(type = SortType.NATURAL)
private SortedSet<Beta> sortedSet = new TreeSet<Beta>();

The entity Beta Inherits from entity Gamma.
Gamma have "attributeName" as attribute.
If i use a attribute of Beta, works fine. But when i use the inherited attribute, the hibernate tries to look for the attributeName attribute in the Beta class, which in fact does not exist.
Follow the exception:
could not initialize a collection: [...sortedSet]
...
Caused by: org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not initialize a collection: [...sortedSet]
...
Caused by: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00904: "GAMA"."GAMA_NM_ATT": invalid identifier

EDIT1:
Alpha, Beta and Gama are Tables in my Database.
I can't use @MappedSuperClass in Gama because it's a Table.
briefly entity declarations:
@Entity
@Table(name = "GAMA")
@SequenceGenerator(name = "SQ_GAM_CD_GAMA", sequenceName = "SQ_GAM_CD_GAMA")
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.JOINED)
public abstract class Gama implements IEntity<Long> {

    @Column(name = "GAM_NM_ATT", nullable = false, length = 260)
    public String getAttributeName() {
        return this.attributeName;
    }
...
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "BETA")
public class Beta extends Gama implements Comparable<Beta> {
    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "BET_CD_BETA", nullable = false)
    public Alpha getAlpha() {
        return alpha;
    }
...
}

@Entity
@Table(name = "ALPHA")
@SequenceGenerator(name = "SQ_ALP_CD_ALPHA", sequenceName = "SQ_ALP_CD_ALPHA")
public class Alpha implements IEntity<Long> {
    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "alpha")
    @Sort(type = SortType.NATURAL)
    @Orderby("attributeName ASC")   //<------------ **PROBLEM**
    private SortedSet<Beta> betaSortedSet = new TreeSet<Beta>();

A: Good question.
I think you can try use @Formula.
For example:
Map in Beta a new attribute annoted with @Formula("GAM_NM_ATT") and use this on your @Orderby.
In this case it works becose the column is not ambiguous.
Cheers.


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Anatomy of a Business Plan
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Strategic Planning - A Pragmatic Guide
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In a case involving Fossil Group Inc., the Supreme Court said trademark owners don't have to show infringers' willfulness in order to win an award from their profits.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
Trademark Profit Awards Don't Require Intent, SCOTUS Rules (2)
By Kyle Jahner
April 23, 2020, 2:33 PM; Updated: April 23, 2020, 9:00 PM
High court vacates Federal Circuit decision
Romag appealed to get award from Fossil restored
Trademark owners don't have to show infringers' willfulness in order to win an award from their profits, a unanimous Supreme Court said.
Romag Fasteners Inc., a watch fastener supplier to Fossil Group Inc., appealed to restore a $6.7 million jury award of Fossil's profits granted after the fashion manufacturer was found to have infringed by switching to an unauthorized supplier. A district court judge nixed the award, a decision affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and vacated by the high court.
The decision remands the case to a lower court for further proceedings. It also settles a circuit split on the question of awarding parts of infringers' profits, especially in cases between non-competitors.
Romag sued in 2010, claiming Fossil switched from an approved supplier of its patented fasteners to a counterfeiter. The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut found Fossil and Macy's Inc. liable for trademark and patent infringement in 2014.
The jury awarded Romag $156,000 for patent infringement and unjust enrichment, and $6.7 million from Fossil's profits to "deter future trademark infringement." But the trial judge reversed the profits portion because the jury didn't find willfulness, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit requires for an award of profits to non-competitors. The Federal Circuit agreed.
The now-stricken "willfulness" requirement in some circuits, including the trademark-case heavy Second Circuit, had affected attorneys' counsel, Haynes and Boone LLP intellectual property chair Richard Rochford said. Now plaintiffs have better chances for monetary awards if there's negligence, as well as more leverage in negotiation and incentive to persist in litigation, he said.
"Clients want to stop infringement and get damages, and you have to tell them that damages are really tricky and difficult in a lot of cases, because there's often no way to calculate how much you had suffered," Rochford said.
The question primarily applied to disputes between non-competitors because plaintiffs can use a competitor's infringement profits as a proxy for damages. But the new ruling could impact cases involving competitors' infringement, intellectual property attorney J. Kevin Fee of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP said. The burden falls onto plaintiffs to establish damages, even when it's a competitor using profits to do so. But when allowed to directly seek profit disgorgement, the burden shifts.
Trademark law "provides that a trademark owner, in an attempt to receive disgorgement, needs only to discover the sales made by the infringer," Fee said. "The defendant has to prove what costs should be deducted" because they weren't profits resulting from infringement.
Fee also said the case would benefit false advertisement plaintiffs, as it falls in the same section of law as infringement and has the same language governing the potential for profit awards.
The opinion, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, said trademark law doesn't require such intent, despite several circuits' precedents that concluded otherwise. He pointed out that the section on damages in the Lanham Act, the federal law guiding trademark, specifically required willfulness to award profits from trademark dilution. But the section has never had such a prerequisite for trademark infringement, he said.
Other areas of the Lanham Act also spell out requirements for willfulness in order to win a profits award, he added.
"Reading words into a statute should be avoided, especially when they are included elsewhere in the very same statute," Gorsuch wrote.
Fossil argued that awarding profits under the "principle of equity" implied an intent requirement. The company also said such a requirement was "so long and universally recognized" that it has risen to the level of a "principle of equity," according to the opinion.
But the Supreme Court said "principles of equity" indicate a fundamental doctrine of fairness that applies across various areas of the law rather than a trademark-specific standard. The historical record also fails to show—before or after the Lanham Act—that courts universally required intent for trademark infringement profits awards, the court said. Romag provided examples rejecting the premise while most cited cases were unclear, it said.
Still a Factor
Four justices signed onto different opinions that concurred with the judgment. The majority opinion said the court doesn't "doubt that a trademark defendant's mental state is a highly important consideration." But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the only justice who didn't join the majority opinion, took issue with the majority being "agnostic" about awarding profits for both innocent and willful infringement.
"The majority suggests that courts of equity were just as likely to award profits for such 'willful' infringement as they were for 'innocent' infringement," she wrote. "A district court's award of profits for innocent or good-faith trademark infringement would not be consonant with the 'principles of equity.'"
Justice Samuel A. Alito wrote a one paragraph concurrence, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan; all three also joined Gorsuch. It said "willfulness is a highly important consideration in awarding profits," but "not a precondition."
Like Sotomayor, Fossil raised fears of large judgments against good-faith infringers. The company warned of "baseless" lawsuits with no intent requirement. But attorneys have said even in circuits that rejected a requirement, profit awards without intent are rare.
"I don't think that's as massive a concern as the defendant was trying to suggest" Fee said. "While willfulness is no longer a requirement, disgorgement of profits is not automatic in trademark cases. There are a series of factors courts consider. Willfulness is just one of those factors."
Williams & Connolly LLP represented Romag. Hogan Lovells US LLP represented Fossil.
The case is Romag Fasteners, Inc. vs. Fossil Group, Inc., U.S., No. 18-1233, Opinion 4/23/20
(Updated with additional reporting)
To contact the reporter on this story: Kyle Jahner in Washington at kjahner@bloomberglaw.com
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Roger Yu at ryu@bloombeglaw.com; Keith Perine at kperine@bloomberglaw.com
Kyle Jahner
IP Reporter
Justices Tackle Equity, Intent for Trademark Profits Awards (1)
Battle Over Trademark Profit Awards to Play Out at Supreme Court
Jan. 9, 2020, 11:31 AM
Hard Road to Trademark Damages Revealed in High Court Petition
willful trademark infringement
Fossil Group Inc


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Q: how to do boost::asio::spawn with io_service-per-CPU? My server is based on boost spawn echo server.
The server runs fine on single-core machine, not even one crash for several months. Even when it takes 100% CPU it still works fine.
But I need to handle more client requests, now I use multi-core machine. To use all the CPUs I run io_service on several thread, like this:
#include <boost/asio/io_service.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/ip/tcp.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/spawn.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/steady_timer.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/write.hpp>
#include <boost/thread/thread.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
#include <thread>
using namespace std;

using boost::asio::ip::tcp;

class session : public std::enable_shared_from_this<session>{
public:
    explicit session(tcp::socket socket)
        : socket_(std::move(socket)),
        timer_(socket_.get_io_service()),
        strand_(socket_.get_io_service())
    {}

    void go()
    {
        auto self(shared_from_this());
        boost::asio::spawn(strand_, [this, self](boost::asio::yield_context yield)
        {
           try {
               char data[1024] = {'3'};
               for( ; ;) {
                   timer_.expires_from_now(std::chrono::seconds(10));
                   std::size_t n = socket_.async_read_some(boost::asio::buffer(data, sizeof(data)), yield);
                   // do something with data
                   // write back something
                   boost::asio::async_write(socket_, boost::asio::buffer(data, sizeof(data)), yield);
               }
           } catch(...)   {
               socket_.close();
               timer_.cancel();
           }
        });

        boost::asio::spawn(strand_, [this, self](boost::asio::yield_context yield)
        {
           while(socket_.is_open()) {
               boost::system::error_code ignored_ec;
               timer_.async_wait(yield[ignored_ec]);
               if(timer_.expires_from_now() <= std::chrono::seconds(0))
                   socket_.close();
           }
        });
    }

private:
    tcp::socket socket_;
    boost::asio::steady_timer timer_;
    boost::asio::io_service::strand strand_;
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    try {

        boost::asio::io_service io_service;

        boost::asio::spawn(io_service, [&](boost::asio::yield_context yield)
        {
            tcp::acceptor acceptor(io_service,
#define PORT "7788"
            tcp::endpoint(tcp::v4(), std::atoi(PORT)));

            for( ; ;) {
                boost::system::error_code ec;
                tcp::socket socket(io_service);
                acceptor.async_accept(socket, yield[ec]);
                if(!ec)
                    // std::make_shared<session>(std::move(socket))->go();
                    io_service.post(boost::bind(&session::go, std::make_shared<session>(std::move(socket))));
            }
        });

        // ----------- this works fine on single-core machine ------------
        {
            // io_service.run();
        }

        // ----------- this crashes (with multi core) ----------
        {
            auto thread_count = std::thread::hardware_concurrency(); // for multi core
            boost::thread_group threads;
            for(auto i = 0; i < thread_count; ++i)
                threads.create_thread(boost::bind(&boost::asio::io_service::run, &io_service));

            threads.join_all();
        }

    } catch(std::exception& e) {
        std::cerr << "Exception: " << e.what() << "\n";
    }

    return 0;
}

The code works fine on single-core maching, but crashes all the time on 2-core/4-core/8-core machine. From the crash dump I don't see anything related to my code, just about something with boost::spawn and some randomly named lambda.
So I want to try this: Run io_service per CPU.
I found some demo, but it uses async function:
void server::start_accept()
{
  new_connection_.reset(new connection(
        io_service_pool_.get_io_service(), request_handler_));
  acceptor_.async_accept(new_connection_->socket(),
      boost::bind(&server::handle_accept, this,
        boost::asio::placeholders::error));
}

void server::handle_accept(const boost::system::error_code& e)
{
  if (!e)
  {
    new_connection_->start();
  }

  start_accept();
}

The io_service_pool_.get_io_service() randomly pickup an io_service, but my code uses spawn
boost::asio::spawn(io_service, ...

How to spawn with random io_service?

A: Seems I was asking the wrong question, spawn cannot work with multiple io_service, but the socket can. I modified the code to this:
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    try {

        boost::asio::io_service io_service;
        boost::asio::io_service::work work(io_service);

        auto core_count = std::thread::hardware_concurrency();
        // io_service_pool.hpp and io_service_pool.cpp from boost's example
        io_service_pool pool(core_count);

        boost::asio::spawn(io_service, [&](boost::asio::yield_context yield)
        {
#define PORT "7788"
            tcp::acceptor acceptor(io_service, tcp::endpoint(tcp::v4(), std::atoi(PORT)));

            for( ; ;) {
                boost::system::error_code ec;
                boost::asio::io_service& ios = pool.get_io_service();
                tcp::socket socket(ios);
                acceptor.async_accept(socket, yield[ec]);
                if(!ec)
                    ios.post(boost::bind(&session::go, std::make_shared<session>(std::move(socket))));
            }
        });

        { // run all io_service
            thread t([&] { pool.run(); });
            t.detach();

            io_service.run();
        }

    } catch(std::exception& e) {
        std::cerr << "Exception: " << e.what() << "\n";
    }

    return 0;
}

Now the server doesn't crash anymore. But I still have no idea what could cause the crash if I use a single io_service for all threads.


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2021-02-03 22:13:40 | Billion-dollar baby: Amazon daily sales surpass new milestone | Coronavirus pandemic News
February 3, 2021 - by James Cook - Leave a Comment
Story by: Al Jazeera
Amazon's skyrocketing profits reflect the holiday shopping season and pandemic-fueled trend of shopping online.
Amazon.com Inc. breached the $1 billion-a-day revenue mark in 2020, in another example of how the company's massive growth and market dominance has made its stock a near-unanimous favorite on Wall Street.
The e-commerce giant's fourth-quarter results brought full-year revenue to $386 billion. According to an analysis of Bloomberg data, Walmart Inc. is the only other U.S. company with a $1 billion daily sales average, though Exxon Mobil has hit it in the past.
Amazon's massive haul reflects both the holiday shopping season and the pandemic, which accelerated a longstanding shift to online retail over last year. As a measure of how the company is thriving in this environment, revenue grew nearly 44% in the fourth quarter, topping $100 billion for the first time; it also guided toward another quarter above that level.
The stock dipped 0.3% to trade around $3,370 on Wednesday, with the results offset by the news that Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos will be stepping down from his post later this year. Amazon's shares have gained nearly 70% over the past 12 months.
While Walmart has consistently reported revenue above the $100 billion threshold for years, it is only expected to report revenue growth of about 4.5% when it reports later this month, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"The growth Amazon is seeing is just amazing, and it reflects a structural shift toward e-commerce that isn't stopping or slowing," said David Wagner, a portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors, which owns the stock. In a phone interview, he added that "as this tailwind continues, Amazon will become even more of a behemoth than it already is, and not just in e-commerce, but retail overall."
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Among S&P 500 companies with at least $50 billion in annual revenue, only T-Mobile USA Inc. and Centene Corp. had growth above 40% in their most recent quarters, and both were boosted by recent acquisitions. In addition, Amazon is one of only six S&P 500 companies to report at least six consecutive quarters with revenue growth above 20%, along with Netflix Inc., Etsy Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., ServiceNow Inc. and DexCom Inc.
Last year, Citi estimated that Amazon will comprise 43% of the domestic e-commerce market by 2022, compared with 38% in 2019, as well as nearly 7% of total U.S. retail sales by 2022, up from 4% in 2019.
This kind of potential has made Amazon the best-loved megacap on Wall Street. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, 54 firms recommend buying the stock, compared with only one with a neutral rating. None have a bearish view, resulting in a consensus rating — a proxy for its ratio of buy, hold, and sell ratings — of 4.93 out of five, the highest among the largest U.S. companies. The average analyst price target implies additional upside of about 20%, above the return potential of names like Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
The company shows "no signs of slowing down after a huge holiday season," and its leadership in key markets "should emerge even stronger coming out of the pandemic," wrote Shyam Patil, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group. He sees the stock climbing to $5,200, the highest price target on the Street.
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When me and Daniel decide to showcase videos on the blog we're often wary of the length, as we know many people can get distracted when watching long pieces. Today I'm going to throw this rule out of the window as I point you towards a piece titled 'Place of Hope, The Kasama Community and the Great Ordeal', directed by Henry Mochida and Mike Douglass. It's a 26 minute film and was made to tell the story of potters in the historic town of Kasama where they're joining hands to create an inspiring movement to rebuild their craft and livelihoods.
Kasama, a small town in Ibaraki Prefecture north of Tokyo, has long been popular for its pottery, many people come from all over world to study pottery with Kasama's masters. The lead character in this video is Akio Nukaga who's the potter who spearheads the movement to Save Kasama Potters. He's a really inspiring creative who's both humble and talented, in fact Akio really captured my attention today and made me think about what I'm doing and the way in which I could help people in the community. Quite an eye opener.
As you know Japan experienced a devastating earthquake in 2011 and the potter craft-community suffered tremendous damage that destroyed many of the noborigama kilns and shattered thousands of ceramics. The craft lifestyle, already threatened in the machine-age, faced near destruction from the earthquake. With the potters abilities to practice and have a livelihood in peril, the potters had but one choice, to come together to help rebuild their craft lifestyle. It's really heartwarming hearing the stories of the potters and how they went about reconstructing the broken kilns, also the attitude they have which is most inspiring in my opinion. It's almost as if they're picking up right where they left off and are continuing onwards and upwards, working hard and making a new path for themselves. For example updating the kilns so they're better than they were before, also trying out new styles and techniques, I'm sure this disaster has also changed the mentalities of the ceramicists and has inspired them to keep going and to tell their story.
So I'd urge you now to watch this documentary below, it's a real treat and will set off your night nicely. For anyone interested this film will be available to buy on DVD via the R3IMAGE website very soon, which is linked below, so please head that way and show your support for this project. Hopefully this isn't the last we'll hear from the Kasama community.